Earth Sciences Faculty member Lynn Moorman, (as a team member of Canadian Geographic Education) received a $47,200 collaborative planning grant from National Geographic Education Foundation, to promote K-12 Geographic Literacy in Canada and the United States.

The book was released in February 2014 by Elsevier, one of the world’s largest publishers of scientific texts, and has been sold internationally. The book was conceived as a treatise with the objective of providing a comprehensive examination of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). It is the first environmental forensics text devoted exclusively to POPs and introduces the reader to a multitude of chemicals and forensic techniques.

Fearless mountain climber and Mount Royal Physicist, Raphael Slawinski, scaled the Northwest face of K6 in the Himalayas in July 2013. The ascent of this previously unclimbed summit, gained him and climbing partner Ian Welsted the Piolets d’Or 2014 award. You can read about the award and also scroll down to watch a short video of the ascent here…

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